Re: [patch] ide.c as a module

[Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz]

On Thursday 18 of December 2003 01:29, Krzysztof Halasa wrote:
> BTW: modular IDE in 2.4.23 is still problematic - you can't unload the
> chipset driver (piix.o or something like) which in turn references the
> core IDE module.

It is probably too much work to fix it (properly) in 2.4.x and 2.6.x...

Please note that there is no refcounting in IDE drivers,
there is no host object type, also table of IDE ports (ide_hwifs[]) is static.

I hope 2.7 will obsolete drivers/ide...

--bart

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